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.TH symilar 1 "17 Jul 2012" "SunOS 5.12"
.SH NAME
.B symilar
\- finds copy pasted blocks in a set of files

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B /usr/bin/symilar
[
.I OPTIONS
]  file...

.SH DESCRIPTION
.B symilar
is a helper script for pylint. Symilar will display information
about duplicate lines in a file.  The output lists the total number of lines,
how many duplicate lines found and what percentage of the lines are duplicates.

.SH OPTIONS
.IP "--duplicates, -dl  min_duplicated_line"
sets a minimum threshhold for duplicated lines
.IP "--help, -h"
displays help message 
.IP "--ignore-comments"
do not include duplicates found in comment blocks

.SH USAGE
symilar [-d|--duplicates min_duplicated_lines] [--ignore-comments] file..

.SH FILES
/usr/lib/python2.6/vendor-packages/pylint
/usr/lib/python2.7/vendor-packages/pylint

.SH SUPPORT
python-projects@logilab.org

.SH SEE ALSO
.IR pylint (1),
.IR logilab-common (3), 
.IR logilab-astng (3)
